Monday, September 13, 2010

Win one of three signed copies of I LOVE My Cotton Candy Hair!
Guest Blogger, Aisha recently reviewed a new children's book called, "I LOVE My Cotton Candy Hair!" It is the first release in a new children's book series which aims to foster a love of reading and a love of self by introducing stories that champion the principles of absolute self love and acceptance. The author has generously offered to give 3 signed copies away to our readers.

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I would love to win this book for my beautiful God Daughter. One thing I always want her to know is that she is beautiful just the way she is. She doesn't have to have straight hair to be considered beautiful. Her curly "cotton candy hair" is unique, which makes her even more beautiful! She is starting to attend school and interacting with different children, of different ethnicities. So now is the perfect time to introduce this book to her.

I follow (via Reader) and I would love to win this book for my daughter (due Oct 13) to counteract the messages she's sure to hear from my grandmother (just as I did growing up) no matter how hard I try. -- Mireille

Oh oh oh I would love to win this! I most def follow and this would be for my 2 daughters, Tatum age 4 who loves her hair in a "puff ball" and Terin age 2 who hates getting her hair done but what can you do lol.

I would like this book for my daughter because I am the only one in our family that is natural and the treatment that I get from family and some friends, after two years of being natural, is not the idea I want planted in my daughter's head about her natural kinky hair. Also my daughter just started Pre-K and this will be a good book to add to her reading log.

I follow B&B and the book would be for my niece. My niece is inter-racial and lives in a small town in Iowa with the Caucasian side of her family. They do what they can with her hair but they do not know very much about hair care, and she has two female cousins her age that have long straight hair and I just want her to grow up with a good self image.

As an African American female I know how difficult it can be to love "one's hair" and I especially know how difficult it is for her growing up in a community where not many people have "cotton candy hair". We (the husband and I) visit twice and year and I braid her hair and do different styles for her, because her mother has arthritis and keeps her daughters hair in a short fro for convenience. I just want my niece to know that she is beautiful just the way she is, and grow up to embrace her "cotton candy hair" as I have mine.

I follow BBB and I would like to win this book for my niece Clara. I volunteered to do Clara’s hair on weekends because she has really long and kinky hair. Her mom works a lot and is sometimes too tired to do pretty styles on her daughter. Clara has 3 older sisters that already had a perm done and she wants to get a perm too. I try to tell her that she has beautiful hair and that she doesn’t need a perm. Clara is in second grade and she enjoys reading. She would love this book. ;-]

I follow BBB and the Book would be for my beautiful daughter S. I know she will Love the Book I already tell her that she is beautiful and the book will enlighten her how beautiful she is on the inside and out..

I follow BBB and this book will be for my two children who love to read. Both of them have very curly/kinky hair and I want them for once, to be able to identify with the character and to grow up loving their hair. It doesn't have to be straight, curly hair is just as beautiful!

I follow BBB and I would love to gift this book to my daughter. Although she's only 3, she definately has a great love for her hair. I'm sure as she gets older people's comments could effect that about her. It's very rare you see a book that relates to you when you are biracial. I think this book would be a great addition to our library!

I'm a follower! I would get this book for my biracial daughter Serenity. I think it will reinforce everything positive I'm trying to teach her about her hair. She's always getting wonderful comments from people (even strangers) about her lovely curls. It's funny that this book is about "cotton candy" hair - that's how I describe Serenity's hair because when it's especially it looks like and is delicate just like cotton candy! Thank you for a chance to win this awesome book for my little girl!

I follow the BBB blog and facebook page on a regular basis. It has been heaven sent as I learn the best ways and techniques for caring for my daughter's hair. I would love to win this book for her. Here at home we are constantly trying to develop and reinforce strong self esteem for her so once she really gets out in school with others not like her self, she will stand strong and proud and never 2nd guess her God given beauty. I would love this book to be a part of this process for her.

I follow BBB and this book would be for my 5 year old daughter, who is biracial. Because the area we live in, she doesn't see too many people like her and with the type of hair she has. She had a bit of an issue with it once before and I would love to read this to her so she knows that her fluffy and puffy hair is so beautiful.

I follow BBB. And this books would be for my daughter Chasity. I wish there were books like this when i was growing up. Although she is only 1 1/2 i want her to start learning as early as possible to love herself the way she is. And to not pay attention to the media on how shes supposed to look

I follow BBB and this book will be for my daughters Amirah and Kalilah, we have story time every night and all messages i reinforce to my girls are via books, this book will deffinatley help promote self love for my babies and i really hope i can have the chance to win a copy. thank you.

I follow BBB. I want my daughters to have this book. My big girl especially, she has been making alot of comment about perms(and she is only 4!) I really want her to learn to love herselfe the way that GOD created her.

I recently began following BBB. I am so excited to find this blog because we are adopting a daughter from Ethiopia. This book will be for her. We want so much for her to be proud of her heritage and who she is. Thanks so much for the give a way!!

im a BBB follower and i would love for my 2 girls to have this book, being born in a foreign country where all they see is children with white skin and long black hair, and inside toy storys and bookstores all they see is barbie this and hannah montanah that, i would love for them to have a book where they can identify with the character and photos in the story where they can love their hair and skin and not feel strange and out of place

hi, im nadela & i love u blog. so the reason i want to win this book is for my niece. she is 6 turning 7 and i think her hair beautiful the way it is but she is just counting the days till she will get a perm. when i told of how beautiful it was she said " no its not, it nappy!". i believe its because she is surrounded by those who think "nappy hair" is bad hair and she sees extension braids and getting perm as her only option. So i think this book would help her to embrace her hair & the way God made her. ---thanks <3

I would love this book for my niece. She's 3 years old and I feel that it's never too early to teach a child the importance of self love. I think this book will teach her that's it's okay to have "cotton candy hair" and that she is still beautiful no matter what.

I follow BBB on facebook and this blog...i would love this book for my daughter. since i have just started learning how to properly nourish and style her hair we have a long way to go. i want her to love herself for who she is. She is bi-racial and really has no influence of african american women role models in her life right now. its important for me to raise her loving her hair and herself :)

I follow BBB, and this book will be for my niece. I want this book for her because she is starting to feel self-conscious about her beautiful natural hair. She wants it to be longer and straighter. I think this book will help foster her self esteem and learn to embrace her natural kinks!

I follow BBB. I would like to win this book for my 6 year old daughter who likes her cotton candy hair, but sometimes still wishes she had straight hair like her friends at school, so that I can re-enforce that her hair IS beautiful and fun, and that she does'nt have to look like everyone else to be pretty. And also this would help her self esteem by letting me show her that there ARE other people with the same kind of hair she has and she isn't different in a bad way, just special!

I follow BBB. I would love to win this book for my daughter Jaicia. We live in a small town in South Dakota, where the "brown" population is less than 1%. She already compares her self to her classmates who all have long straight hair. I tell her daily how beautiful her hair is, and how it makes her unique, and I think this book would help to reinforce that. I want her to love her cotton candy hair, too!

I follow BBB! I would like this book for my daughter Cadance. She is just now starting to pick her own books off the bookshelf and I would love to have a myriad of books for her to choose from to show her all races. You do not have to be a blonde hair blue eyed girl to make the cover of a book. I know she would love this book! Thanks for this!

I'm a fellow BBB follower and this book will be for my neice and daughter. Mostly for my neice tho. Most of her classmates have perms or long hair and she in that " I wish I looked like them" stage. I want her to realize that her hair as well as everything else about her is beautyful and she should be proud of HER cotton candy hair!

I definitely follow BBB. I would love to win this book for my almost 3 year old daughter. I collect books for her that promote love for her natural hair. One of our current favorites is "Catching the Wild Waiyuuzee." "I Love my Cotton Candy Hair" would fit her collection quite well.

I follow BBB and I would like to win this book for all my kids. Mainly my oldest who just turned 4. She loves her hair or "fluff" as she calls it and I think the title alone reinforces the positive thoughts she has of her hair. I would also like it for my son so that he will appreciate natural hair later on and my 1 yr old daughter she loves books and she will learn about herself early, always a great thing. :)

I follow BBB! I'd love this book for my 2 1/2 yr old dtr. I love books that instill high self esteem in our children at a young age. This is the first book i've seen on the natural hair subject so i love it, u go girl!

i would love this book for my sister and niece. my sister is transitioning from relaxed hair to natural hair and i want to give her all the assitance i can with teaching her and her daughter tha natural curls are a beauty to cherish!!

I follow BBB and the book will be for my daughter, B. and daughter to be, M. I really want this book for them because I want to teach them to love ALL of themselves just the way God created them. -Rebekah J.

I follow BBB & would love to win a copy of this book for my 7 & 4 year old daughters. I think it's always good for them to see people who look like them in print/on tv because the majority of the images are the exact opposite of what they look like. It might also help my younger daughter learn to appreciate her own unique beauty as she loves "princess hair."

I would love this book for my five year old daughter! I love for us to read books with characters that look like her, which can be rare. I constantly instill in her that her hair is beautiful and unique, and does not have to be straight to be pretty. I think this book would be an additional avenue for her to be receive that message as well.

I love this site and just found it through CurlyNikki.com! I am following and this book would be for my 2 year old daughter. It is partly because of her that I am wearing my hair natural. It is really important to me to show her that she is naturally beautiful and what better way for her to feel that than by seeing her mother embrace her own natural curls.thanks!

I follow BBB and the book will be for my daughter Emma. I want this book for her because its important to me for her to see herself reflected in stories that she reads, especially when it comes to body image and hair.

I follow BBB, and I would love to win "Cotton Candy Hair" for my little princess' E and M. They mean the world to me and are the most beautiful little girls. I want to brighten their day like they do mine everyday, with a special book that shows them what Mommy tells them everyday.......just how beautiful their Cotton Candy hair is.

i follow BBB.. this book would be for my daughter Alexis.. i want her to know that she is beautiful no matter what and just cause she looks diffrent and has different hair than all of her friends.. she is still beautiful

I follow BBB; this book will be for my 8 year-old daughter. I really want this book for her because I want her to embrace and love her beautiful natural hair. She doesn't right now, and I think this book could go a long way towards helping her to see the beauty in her hair.

I'm a BBB follower and this book will be for my daughter L. I think this book will be another great oppurtunity to show my daghter how important self love is. She isn't her hair however her beautiful strands of love means so much to me and I want her to grow to love her hair just as much as I do.

I am a BBB follower and this book would be for my daughter, Isabella. She is an AA little lady who is growing up in a Caucasian family. I want her to value her hair as it is, to think of it as beautiful hair even if it doesn't look like the rest of ours. Thanks!

I follow BBB and 3 other hair care and styling blogs so have lots of 'adult'-centered reading material, but would love to add to our small but growing collection of CHILDREN'S books IN ENGLISH with pictures and stories involving COC. We are living in Germany where there isn't much awareness about racial/color/hair issues in the adult --and thus also in the young -- population. It is very rare even to find pictures of POC in children's books. We would love to be able to show friends and our 1st grade class a book with a STRONG and PROUD BLACK GIRL as the MAIN character!

I follow BBB and I would love this book for my daughter T. I love to teach my child that her hair is beautiful and something to be proud of. I know reading to her about this topic works because she tells me she loves her hair!

I follow BBB! I would give this book to my daughter, even though she doesn't have black hair. I've actually seriously considered buying it recently! Q may not have "cotton candy" hair, but she has curls and I want her to love them no matter what. I think ALL of use should learn to love ourselves the way we are, no perming, straightening, even dyeing! I have straight hair and my 2 yo Q has gorgeous ringlets... but she's the only one in our family who does. I don't want her to grow up thinking her hair is "harder" or "worse" than straight hair. I want her love the curls God gave her! Just the way they come out of her head! <3

My daughter E (age 8) would love this book. She was adopted from Liberia 2 1/2 yrs ago and is most comfortable wearing braids. Her hair is tightly curled and beautiful. I have enjoyed your blog and always learn so much here. Thank you so much!

I'm a follower of BBB! I've wanted to get this book for my 3.5 year old daughter Tia for a while now. It's hard enough to find a book that features an interracial family and/or a biracial lead character. But it's even more difficult to find something that encourages a positive self image, especially related to hair. My daughter has already noticed other children talking about her hair and gets self conscious about it sometimes. She doesn't have any role models with natural hair, all her family members, her godmom, and our friends use relaxers. She is just getting into reading and really identifies with characters in books so I think this book would be awesome for her self esteem and confidence.

I follow BBB and this book would be for my 2 year old daughter, Lauren. Lauren is just beginning her journey. Her journey of self discovery. For Lauren to meet Charlie through the art of storytelling will give Lauren the chance to see another little girl just like her, a girl who loves her curly hair. It would also open the door of discussion between Lauren and I to talk about her hair, my hair and her friends hair. This book would be awesome. I would love to share this book with my daughter.

I am a follower of BBB and this book would be for my 2 year old princess A! She has a love for reading and the message in this book would certainly enhance her self-love and confidence...Thanks for this awesome giveaway!

I follow BBB and I would love to give this book to my niece. I want her to know that she is beautiful and unique in her own way. Also I would love for her to start reading books about natural hair so she can understand the importance of natural hair.

i follow BBB("for a long time by checking on the bookmark but i am recently a follower") and i want this book for my little sister.she has alot of low self esteem when it comes to her hair.All she want is a simple ponytail no pretty braids or ponytails because she thinks its a hassle to do her hair.I didnt know how to manage it or take care of it the right way until i found BBB.I never liked doing her hair and at times called it nappy.When in all reality it was me!I didnt know how to take care of it in the right way.now by me telling her that she has grown to accept that is what her hair really is.When it is not,it is a full thick head of gorgeous curly hair.And i need and want her to understand that and not growing up and wanting to get perms or relaxers like i did when i was young and loose her beautiful curls.I want her to grow up and encourage other people that its ok to love who you are and your hair because "you are not your hair".Also i want her to understand my hair isnt nappy its unique,its curly and its beautiful.

I am a follower of BBB and I would like this book for my two daughters. I want to instill positive feelings about in them about their unique hair. I love that this book likens their hair to cotton candy--something that's so sweet and soft!

This book would be for my niece Jazmine. Jazmine has beautiful big curly hair, but unfortunately she is surrounded by girls with straight hair and often wishes for "down hair". I would love to give her this book to show her that her hair is beautiful!